capitule
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A summary.
— In the Capitule headed · Miscellaneous declarations of Christ, intimating the existence and action of a Superior Nature in himself, we find (p. 295) an interesting addition to the text, the concluding sentence of which is so characteristic of the author's love of justice, that without pretending to ascribe to Dr. Smith the monopoly of that virtue, it would, ahd his work been published ananymously, have gone far towards revealing him.
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Synonym of chapter: a reading at one of the canonical hours.
— At Vespers the following is sung, after the Capitule:
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The flowering head that terminates a stem, a flower or flower head.
— In this country the merits of the Chrysanthemum are already appreciated, and for some years it has acquired considerable repute, which is chiefly owing to the facility with which it doubles its capitules, and modifies the colours of its flowers. At the present day a great number of varieties are in cultivation, some of them with flowers dark purple, nearly black, rose, white, orange, yellow; sometimes we find a single capitule or head with two different colours; other varieties are distinguished by the form of their flowers, which constitute rayed capitules, partly or entirely ligulate; and partly or entirely tubular.
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词源
Borrowed from Late Latin capitulum (“chapter”) (diminutive of Latin caput (“head”)).
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